Hi all, I'm fairly well on with a 996 track bike build and looking for advise on a few items I still need to install/sort out: I have installed adjustable cam pulleys and dialled the cams in to advance the timing (as per the old Brad the Bike Boy write ups). I have installed a wide band lambda sensor in the horizontal cylinder exhaust, near to the cylinder head, with the intention of adjusting the fuelling and re-mapping the eprom accordingly; I intended to rely on the delta map to fuel the vertical cylinder - does this make sense? What's a sensible maximum RPM? - I was thinking 9,500 (I currently run a 748 which revs out to 11,000), but clearly that is not acceptable for the 996 if I want it to hold together! What coolant temperature sensor arrangement have you used to provide a 0-5 volt signal for a logger? Any advise on the best crash bobbins to fit - preferably without cutting the fairing panels? Just a starter for ten really... Thanks in anticipation Tony
The old bikes crash well, I never fitted crash bungs as the bikes slide on their side, i was always worried the bungs would catch and flip. Revs depend on rods, with rs rods mine go to 11k, but not for long. 10k would be ok on standard rods, but after you have tuned if get it on a dyno and see where max power is. If you can redo the eprom and can do so, I would do each cylinder individually, every ducati i have done has had some major differences in fuelling between vertical and horizontal maps
They do crash well. Leathers did not so so well. This was my offering to the Craner Club membership committee last May.
Not sure about your fueling changes but the rest seems OK. If you're running Brad's cam timing you won't need, or get an advantage out of running more than 9500 anyway. I assume you are flashing the EPROM for rev limiter as well. Depending on your rules, lightweight forged wheels would be a great option. The stock 5 spoke wheels on the 996 are cast aluminium alloy not forged and still fairly heavy. Not as heavy as the 3 spokes though
